Pre-order to open late October for dispatch in mid December
The Illustrated Egg Handbook is a colourful guide that gives you a wide range of information on the structure and quality of eggs, as well as what can go wrong. Full of detailed illustrations and tables, this handbook is a perfect guide for people who want to gain knowledge in egg production and quality or even someone that just wants to know more about the inside of an egg. This second edition contains corrections, extra information and easier to carry with a paperback cover.
This book covers:
Basic Egg Knowledge
- The structure of an egg
- Shell portion
- White portion
- The structure of the shell
- When hens lay eggs
- The periodicity of egg-laying
- Influence of light
- Loss of broodiness
- The egg formation process
- Ovary
- Oviduct
- Cloaca
- How eggs make their way into consumers’ hands
- Types of chickens
- Up to the birth of the chicken
- Up to the production of eggs
- Into the hands of consumers
- Egg quality inspections
- Definition of egg quality
- Egg quality inspection technologies
- Egg shelf life
- Trend in the number of cases of food poisoning
- Basis for setting the shelf life
- How to read a label
- Handling eggs at home
- Key points for household hygiene
- Risks of breaking eggs in advance
Examples of Eggshells
- Minor shell breakage
- Pinholes
- Semitransparent mottling
- Spotted eggs
- Glass-shelled eggs
- Semitransparent lines
- Long, semitransparent lines
- Semitransparent short lines
- Variations in shell color
- Eggs with spots
- Discolored eggs
- Pale eggs
- Eggs with uneven coloring
- Splashed eggs
- Glossy eggs
- Eggs with protrusions or surface roughness
- Body-check eggs
- Misshapen eggs
- Paired eggs
- White-banded eggs
- Flattened eggs
- Dirty eggs
Examples of internal egg quality issues
- Meat spots
- Eggs with a pale yolk
- Cloudy albumen
- White spots on the surface of the yolk
- In-shell, physically scrambled eggs
- Ruptured yolk
- Wrinkled Yolk
- Eggs with spots on inside of shell
- White containing a cotton-like material
- Watery albumen
- Gelatine yolks
- Mottled yolks
- Yolk-less eggs
- Multiple yolk eggs
- Hen age and egg weight
- Eggs containing blood
- How ovulation works
- Eggs containing other eggs
- Follicles containing blood tumors
- Eggs containing cheese-like clumps
- Mixed rot eggs
- Rotten eggs
- Black rotten eggs
- Yellow or brown rotten eggs
- Fluorescent rotten eggs
- Microbes responsible for rotten eggs
- Eggs in which incubation stopped prematurely
Examples of boiled eggs
- Boiled eggs with green yolks
- Boiled eggs with brown albumen
- Hard-to-peel boiled eggs
- Boiled eggs with a white yolk
- Boiled eggs that contain only albumen
- Boiled eggs with red albumen
- Boiled eggs with brown albumen
- Boiled eggs with poorly defined yolks
- Fluorescent boiled eggs
Examples involving odor
- Fishy odor
- Ammonia odo
- Sulfur odor
- Eggs that acquire the odor of their storage environment
- Foul odor
Egg quality indicators
- Classifying egg quality (Japan)
- Egg quality indicators
- Shell quality indicators
- Albumen quality indexes
- Yolk quality indexes
Cobb-Vantress, Inc. / Siloam Springs, Arkansas, USA: The new Cobb Broiler Management Guide includes expanded, updated, and newly added technical expertise to help customers optimize flock performance. The informative guide is available on the Cobb website and the Cobb Flock Management app. It covers topics such as water management, ventilation, equipment, and several other best practices in broiler management.
“At Cobb, we consistently bring our customers the latest technical expertise to help make sure products reach maximum performance,” said Robin Jarquin, director of world tech services. “The new broiler guide includes critical information to help support even more yield, better feed conversion, and healthy flocks for customers.”
New information includes:
- Recommendations on how to reuse litter.
- Water management recommendations including a reference table to help evaluate water quality.
- Management techniques and diagrams for naturally ventilated houses.
- Guidance for record keeping and data collecting along with sample sheets to record information.
Expanded and updated information includes:
- Updated format and guide composition to make information easy to find.
- Expanded explanation of tunnel ventilation with additional data and graphs.
- Updated equipment installation recommendations for both perimeter and tunnel inlets with inlet sizing examples.
- Expanded information on circulation fan systems and their role in managing house moisture levels.
- Updated general recommendations for installing high-pressure fogging systems.
- A simplified approach to understanding the specific fan requirements for the various levels of ventilation with easy-to-follow calculations using the same sample house dimensions and fans throughout.
“The Cobb Broiler Management Guide is an industry-leading resource that helps customers raise the bar and achieve the full potential of broilers,” said Jarquin. “It is one of the many ways Cobb supports customers and makes quality protein accessible, healthy, and affordable worldwide.”
All management guides and supplements are housed on Cobb’s website. Additional guides cover hatchery, vaccination, brooding fundamentals, grandparent management, and processing procedures. Topic-driven white papers, technical articles, and a full range of videos are also available. To access these resources, visit cobb-vantress.com/resource.
ABOUT COBB-VANTRESS, INC.
Cobb-Vantress, Inc. makes quality protein accessible, healthy, and affordable worldwide. Our research and technology innovates the global poultry industry. With headquarters in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, we are the world’s oldest pedigree broiler breeder. We distribute poultry to more than 120 countries. Find more at cobb-vantrtess.com.
